Learn to transform your poison into honey. There is a simple process. In fact, to call it transformation is not right, because you don’t do anything; you only need patience. This is one of the greatest secrets I am telling you. Try it: when anger comes, you must not to do anything; just sit silently and watch it. Don’t be against it, don’t be for it. Don’t cooperate with it, don’t repress it. Let it rise.
Just give it a little time and wait... and you will be surprised. If you can wait enough, anger itself becomes compassion. It is a wheel; it is moving on its own — you are in a hurry. Just as night becomes day if you can wait a little, in the same way, anger becomes compassion if you can wait a little. The same energy — just patience has to be added to it, nothing else. Remember one thing: never do anything in the mood when the poison possesses you; just wait.
Negativity provokes more negativity, anger brings more anger, hostility brings more hostility, and things go on and on and on...and people have been estranged with each other for ages. And they continue!
Time To Meditate
Wait. When you are angry, this is the moment to meditate. Don’t waste this moment when anger is creating such great energy in you — it can destroy. But energy is neutral — the same energy that can destroy, can also be creative. The same energy that can shatter, can shower life — just wait. Waiting and not doing anything in a hurry, one day you will be surprised, seeing the inner change. You were full of anger, and then anger goes on and on and comes to a climax... and then the wheel turns. And you can see the wheel is turning, and the anger is relaxing, and energy is released, and now you are in a positive mood — the creative mood. Now you can do something.
Wait And Watch
Always wait for the positive. I am not saying to repress the negative. I am saying watch the negative. Remember the difference. I am not saying sit on top of the negative, forget the negative, do something against it — no. I am not saying when you are angry, smile — no; that smile is false, ugly, phoney. Don’t smile when you are angry. Close the room, keep a mirror in front of you, see your angry face yourself. There is no need to show it to anybody else. It is your business, it is your energy, it is your life, and you have to wait for the right moment. Go on looking in the mirror: see the red face, the red eyes, the murderer there.
Have you ever thought that everybody carries a murderer inside? You also carry a murderer inside. Don’t think that the murderer exists somewhere else — somebody else is a murderer who commits a murder — no: everybody has the possibility to commit a murder. You carry the suicidal instinct in you.
Know Yourself
Just look in the mirror: these are your climates — you have to be acquainted with them. This is part of the growth towards self-knowledge. You will see that anger cannot be there forever. If you don’t do anything, what is going to happen? Can anger hang there forever and forever? Nothing hangs there forever. Happiness comes and goes, unhappiness comes and goes.
Can’t you see a simple law? — that everything changes, nothing remains permanent. So, why be in a hurry? Anger has come — it will be going. You just wait, have a little patience. Just look in the mirror and wait. Let anger be there, let your face go ugly and murderous — but wait, watch.
Don’t repress and don’t act according to the anger, and soon you will see that the face is becoming softer, the eyes are becoming calmer, the energy is changing — and soon you will be full of radiance. The same redness that was anger, now is a certain radiance — a beauty on your face, in your eyes.
When it grips you, meditate, be creative,
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